Four gold medals and one bronze made Simone Biles the most decorated gymnast at the 2016 Olympic Games two years ago. In fact, the start of the U.S. Gymnastics Championships on August 16 marks exactly two years since the world last saw Simone Biles compete, two years since she became Olympic floor champion ― another medal she added to her mostly golden collection.

But the world doesn’t have to wait until her floor gold anniversary to see her return to competition. On July 28, Biles will make her highly anticipated comeback to competition at the GK U.S. Classic in Columbus, Ohio.

After intense elite training for five years and winning a whopping 16 international gold medals at major competitions ― including the Olympics, World Championships, and Pacific Rim Championships ― during the Rio quadrennium, Biles got a much-needed break from the sport following the Games. She went on multiple vacations, attended several award shows, wrote and promoted a book, and competed on Dancing with the Stars. 

With such an active break from the sport, many wondered, “When will she return?” Or perhaps the question was “Will she come back?”

Biles’ all-around sweep from the 2016 quad was historic, and her performances from the Rio Olympic Games alone had cemented her as one of the best ― if not the best, the greatest of all time. Who or what could possibly compare to and compete with Biles’ success? What did she need to return for? Why compete again?

In the sport of gymnastics, there’s always room to improve and grow. There’s always another tenth. There’s always another twist or flip to add. And with Biles’ incredible execution and difficulty, why not?

“I would rather risk [a comeback] now than, 20 years from now, being like, ‘I wish I would have tried again. I wonder what would have happened,’” Biles told David Barron of the Houston Chronicle.

"Twenty years from now, I can now say, ‘well, at least I tried.'"

Biles officially began training for her comeback last August after announcing her return to the gym in an interview at the 2017 P&G Championships. Next week, she’ll be performing on the competition floor for the first time since the Olympics at the U.S. Classic, a meet that usually serves as a warmup for the national championships. But that won’t necessarily be the case this time.

The Classic is the last chance for gymnasts to qualify for the national championships, and although the reigning Olympic champion was named to the national team earlier this year, she has yet to qualify. Her original plan was to compete only bars and beam at the Classic, but recently shared her plans to compete in the all-around, allowing her to qualify all four events at the national championships next month in Boston. 

I’m doing All-Around now actually !!!! https://t.co/IgGciE4oFM

— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) July 16, 2018

Her decision to compete all-around may come as a surprise considering her initial plan and her being back in the gym for less than a year, but Biles has always been one to surpass expectations and boundaries. 

Before her senior elite debut, such well-executed high difficulty gymnastics had yet to be seen on every event. Biles’ gymnastics has been the epitome of the non-10.0 code. Before her, sweeping the all-around crowns in a single quad was only recently seen in men’s artistic gymnastics with Kohei Uchimura. Before Biles, Olympic, world, and U.S. national all-around titles were decided by tenths, not a few points. 

And as the sport and Code of Points continue to evolve and grow, so will Biles’ gymnastics. With Laurent Landi as her new coach, she has already improved on her weakest event, uneven bars. Her superb vaults are in the process of being upgraded ― will the triple twisting Yurchenko become the Biles? She has an insane double double beam dismount. Biles even said it herself:

"I am better now than I was in Rio."

The GK U.S. Classic will be the world’s first opportunity to see how much better and how much higher the legend can go.